Some things you wanted to know about the martial arts but were to afraid to ask.....
1) In a martial arts dojo (school) what is the tatami?
a) An Italian sausage
b) A throwing technique
c) A character from Dragon Ball Z
d) The training mat area
2) What is the generally accepted meaning of the term 'jujitsu'?
a) Gentle Ways
b) Soft and Gentle
c) The Gentle Art
d) Touch me again and I'll break your arm!
3) The 'father' of Judo spent many years studying various jujitsu styles, but what was his name?
a) Jigoro Kano
b) Gigolo Kenko
c) Rigalo Kencho
d) Earthworm Jim
4) What is the simple English translation of the word Karate?
a) Empty hand
b) Empty pockets
c) Empty mind
d) Empty fridge
5) When an instructor or referee shouts 'hajime' what does it mean?
a) 'Hi Jimmy' where you been? (archaic scottish greeting)
b) Go away Buffy's on!
c) Begin or start
d) Call that a knife? This....is a knife!
6) How many techniques/moves is a junior required to perform for a full red belt?
a) 12
b) 15
c) 24
d) Dunno...only started last week
7) What is the generic name for a japanese sword?
a) Katana
b) Botswana
c) Havabanana
d) Sharp, metal thingy
8) The Mongul fleet, during the second invasion of Japan, was destroyed by a storm - 'the devine wind' what was this storm known as?
a) Devine intervention
b) Blow hard sink ship
c) Kamikazee
d) Dunno don't speak japanese
9)
Morihei Ueshiba, another jujitsu practioner, created his own martial art - what was it called?
a) Origami
b) Aikido
c) Orinoko
d) Bullshido
10) Barton-Wright is credited with bringing Jujitsu to the west and adapting his own style from it, what did he call his style?
a) Baritsu
b) Jubarto
c) Bartitsu
d) Barton Ryu Hapjitsu
11) What is the name of the ancient Olympic sport that employed, kicking, punching, throwing and locks
a) Pankratian
b) St. Pancras
c) Ouzzo
d) Dunno don't speak ancient greek
12) In Enter the Dragon, how does Bruce Lee's character respond to O'Hara's board breaking demonstration?
a) Look at the finger, the finger points the way to the board, the board is everything, be the board my friend
b) The strong prey on the weak and yet the smallest of splinters can cause blindness
c) Breaking boards is like threading a camel through the eye of a needle - pointless!
d) Boards, don't hit back
13) In the southern states of America there is a religious group who beleive that all Martial Arts are the work of the devil. Assuming you had the power what would you do to them?
a) Arrange for an average sized meteor to smash down into their church, preferbly on a Sunday morning
a) Lock the congregation up in a room and subject them to endless re-runs of Enter the Dragon while kicking the **** out of them during the opening and closing titles.
a) Tell them that a celebrity supporter of their cause would like to address them and send someone round dressed as Darth Maul
a) Hope that when they eventually meet St. Peter he tells them that they can get into heaven provided they can hip throw him.
14) At how many different venues does the IAJJ currently have clubs running?
a) 7
b) 4
c) 5
d) What's IAJJ mean?
15) Tae Kwon Do is a Korean martial art stupidly described as 'ancient' in a scottish newspaper - in what year was this 'ancient art' created?
a) 1947
b) 1933
c) 1066
d) 2000BC
16) The traditional Japanese martial arts uniform (gi) is based on what?
a) 16th century Okinowan peasant costume
b) 13th century Japanese pyjamas
c) 12th century chinese pyjamas
d) 14th century budhist monks outfit
17) Why do we think that the ancient Egyptians had their own martial arts?
a) Tutankhamun was found buried with a pair of nunchukas
b) There's a mummy in the British museum frozen in a No.4 kata block
c) Nefertiti actually means 'hip throw with cross over arm lock'
d) Egyptian hieroglyphs (picture writing) show figures performing what look like fighting stances
18) People who practise Jujitsu are called what?
a) Nutters!
b) Ju-jitsoka
c) Masochists
d) Sore
19) What Olympic Sport owes its origins to Jujitsu?
a) Synchronised swimming
b) Fencing
c) Volleyball
d) Judo
20) When practising a technique the person attacking is called uke or uki what is the person defending called?
a) tori
b) kori
c) dori
d) flori
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